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The 2023 Galway Garden Festival will take place this weekend Sat-Sun July 1-2, at Claregalway Castle. This unique and charming event has something for all and is a wonderful gathering of Ireland’s best rare and special plant traders, expert speakers, artisan food and craft producers, as well as a host of musical entertainment and open-air performance. Entertainment includes a delightful new show by ‘Yer Mans Puppets’ twice each day.

The 2023 Galway Garden Festival will take place on weekend of 1st -2nd July, at Claregalway Castle.

Step into the wild with Friends of Merlin Woods for Biodiversity week May 14-22Friends of Merlin Woods with a whole host of individuals and organisations, will create an immersive and nature awareness experience in the wild urban oasis.

AT EVERY arts event in the city he would be there, the jolly man with the glasses and the long hair, a smile and good company, enthusiastic for what he, and we, were about to see that night, be it theatre, music, literature, visual arts - and he usually had an important role in supporting it.

When I’m discussing planting plans with clients they’re sometimes nonplussed by the botanical names of plants, and it’s hard to blame them - after all, not many of us are familiar with Latin in the twenty first century. There’s a very good reason for using them, though, and it’s not just to baffle you with hard to pronounce tongue twisters.

Only a small amount of blanket bog exists in the world and Ireland possesses eight per cent of the world’s blanket bog and is the most important country in Europe for this type of habitat. As a result, Conamara Bog Week will celebrate its 33rd year this May, with a nine-day festival packed with walks, talks, music and poetry, all in honour of the rugged landscape that surround Letterfrack.